We´re using a Mongo database and for API we use a Nodejs framework called hapijs. For you to access our API, we could build a parallel API functionality that works according to your standards or variable names.

Yes, database will be open but users and projects will decide which information remains private. Regarding licenses, probably GNU GPL, MIT, Public Domain but not sure yet, we´re looking for suggestions.

There will be user and project profiles accessed and edited by them, and anonymous consultation but not editing.

About classification of data, we have projects, ethical businesses and individuals with different sets of information to classify. Projects and ethical businesses will be classified by category (housing, education, art, etc.) and type of project (collective, NGO, cooperative, citizen initiative, etc.) .

Let us know if you have any questions or ideas about how our project can collaborate with Transformap.

I see the friendly transformaps community already welcomed you warmheartedly.

According to the data provided by the questionnaire and from looking into the sources the application seems to have a nice modular stack. Frontend and backend are available coupled within a single repository.

Although we have received various suggestions not to use MongoDB, we know practicality beats purity.
Direct collaboration could involve understanding the stack better, probably aimed at decoupling again, and extracting the implied vocabulary from the data classification models.

Actually we would prefer to have any discussions out in the open. This helps keeping a public-oriented mindset, documents our activities for later and allows others to repeat our thoughts to their own benefit.

We are further in touch with networks like Italia che cambia via @Luca and many more, just to name a few recent ones, to collaborate on minimizing redundancy while increasing diversity.

You could be joining this federation and engage in sociotechnical discussion, help finding new collaborators or interested parties or just making use of this discoursive knowledge commons to find out about mapping alternative economies in general.

thanks for showing us the current collaborative mapping platforms with whom you collaborate,
we now know more about them and they all sound interesting.

We like to collaborate focusing on needs and offers and that´s why im gonna do a list of what we need and what we can offer and hope that from that list we can find a way to collaborate with transformap or any of the projects in this community. We are finishing our platform and our current needs and offers are the following:

Needs: web developers, web designers, help with OSM editing. We have a small budget but we do have one. We use nodejs, hapijs, mongodb, osm, leaflet, mapbox.

Offers: a network and map of projects and businesses working on the solidarity economy/alternative economy in mexico city, consulting on UX and social psychology, hosting-food-transportation-friends in mexico city.

Im not sure if there is a “Vacancies” section in here but I could´nt find it.

Are you speaking of the license of your software (source code) or for the data your users enter? There are licenses that specific to software (e.g. GPL, MIT) and the ones for data and media (CC, ODbL).
If we want to share the data that is entered by the users (POIs), we need compatible licenses - easiest would be CC-0, of course.

Sebastian-Romero:

Needs: …, help with OSM editing.

I would be able to help with OSM here. What are you planning to do with OSM data, do you plan to edit OSM directly or to develop a specific editor?

Offers: a network and map of projects and businesses working on the solidarity economy/alternative economy in mexico city, consulting on UX and social psychology, hosting-food-transportation-friends in mexico city.

We are using Mapbox for the styling of OSM. What do you recomend? The main things we would like to do is to add some kind of icons to get a better reference of where is everything: showing public known places, subway lines and stations in a colorful way, free wifi points, etc.

Which Mapbox style are you using currently? I’ve always written my styles manually with CartoCSS, have you used Mapbox studio?

The most colorful style out there is probably the standard “mapnik” style you see on osm.org. It’s not pretty, but centered on containing as much information as possible.
If you need help which OSM feature correspond to which OSM tags for creating your style, search the OpenStreetMap-Wiki.